Thread: Are these .223 tracers?

Originally Posted by gundoc

Tracer projectiles will not damage a barrel any more than conventional bullets, subject to a proper cleaning regime. The residual tracer compounds can enhance corrosion if they are left uncleaned. Whilst I generally do not support the government's very wide definition of 'prohibited ammunition', I do not not support the use of tracer ammunition as it is well known for starting fires, several of which I have witnessed and helped extinguish.

Yep. If tracer damaged barrels the military would absolutely chew through them. But they don't. I can't remember machine guns I was responsible for for a two year period having replacement barrels and they would do possibly 4 courses a year. Each gun may have been allocated 2500-3500 rounds.
And for every 4 ball (fmj) rounds there would be one tracer shot through them.